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its so difficult to draw anatomy. and objects. and backgrounds. and clothing. and colors. and lighting. i honestly dont know how i ever managed to draw anything in my entire life

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Personally, I'm the last one tbh

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modern ru au (god it took so long to draw)

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Do you kids know how hard it is to hyper fixate on shit as a goddamn adult?? Sorry boss I know you need those files done but I’m too busy giggling like a goddamn school girl over a fictional man

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Let's take it further. What if this current situation is a result of nearly subconscious adjustment that had lasted for years? That had started, probably, even before Sam had hit puberty?

Because Dean, going out with girls, kissing girls, having his first awkward teenage petting with girls, having even more awkward teenage sex with girls couldn't stop thinking about his little brother. His little brother, all soft, smooth and pink, all tender and sweet, smiling when he feels Dean tucking his blanket in his sleep. Dean thought of that and - huh - how could he be anything but 100% vanilla with extra vanilla on top? How could there be anything but absolute sweetness?

Because Sam, coming of age a little later, already having had a sneak peak of Dean's endless line of one-town-two-weeks hook-ups, starting to take interest in girls too, is thinking about his big brother, too. With Sam it's jealousy, with Sam it's revenge. With Sam it's "I can do better, deeper, harder, louder". He could never beat Dean at the amount of experience, but he can at the quality. At the level of craziness - even though Dean with his dozens of girls had probably tried a lot. It's rough and hardcore and how-much-can-I-take and how-much-can-I-give.

They shape each other in the form of what they think their brother would love to have. Eventually, they're so wrong it hurts. But, well, they're pretty educable, right? Never too late to learn a new thing.

Headcanon that Dean has lots of sex with a lot of people but most of it is pretty vanilla. He's slapped a girls ass, he's let a few girls edge him a bit, 1 time he put on panties, but thats pretty much it.

Wheras Sam can easily go monk for years(he can take care of himself just fine, thank you very much). But when he does have sex, its freaking kinky as hell. I'm talking bdsm. I'm talking toe sucking. DDLG. Toys. Bottoming. Topping. Roleplay. The full 9 yards. And his general attitude is that there isn't much he wouldn't try once if it was with the right partner.

Best part: both Sam and Dean think the other one is the opposite. Sam thinks Dean has tried every position and toy under the sun and Dean thinks Sam does it missionary style with the lights off reciting poetry.

Now:

Imagine all the bazillion ways that they could discover how wrong they are in hilariously embarrassing hijinks.

Your welcome.

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i've tried to avoid admitting it but the fact of the matter is supernatural was tailor made for me because i love drinking beer and wearing shitty jeans and incest

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I think about this a lot, actually. I don't have any super strong feeling about the actress, but it's a loss they didn't cast the one that portrayed the younger Mary.

In s12 Dean is what, 37? And Sam's 33? That make Mary&Sam's age difference bigger than Sam&Dean's. She's twenty eight when she dies, she's twenty eight when she is revived. He sons are in their thirties. Dean's almost a decade older than her! She's literally younger then her baby son, the one that was an infant in a cradle just a few days-weeks-months before in her own timeline.

If the portrayal of the situation stayed true to the age issue, the writing would work better. Of course she's uncomfortable with these two grown-ass men (whom she barely recognizes as her children) calling her "mom". Of course she's freaking out. Of course it's weird. Of course she's confused. Of course she wants to distance herself to clear out her head.

It's just a bit harder to proceed with the show's version. It robbed us of a totally different power dynamic in all of their scenes.

Mary was supposed to be like max 30 years old in mind (and body?) when she was resurrected, right? Which makes it so much funnier for the brothers to be like mommy? Mommy? Mommy? I kinda understood why she was like damn I should be at da club

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wincest wednesday question of the week: one word to describe your favorite aspect of the (vertical or horizontal) wincest dynamic

h.w.w. <3

p.s. pass it on to a few mutuals if you like, and tag #wincest wednesday so we can see your answers

Inseparable.

They can't, they won't, it's both the inevitable destiny and the freest of choices.

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Good to know Avoxes existed as a concept before Snow grasped the power.

I've already thought how firstly this was his special way to treat the Covey after everything that happened in Twelve. How they loved singing, and he made sure they won't sing anymore, because Lucy Gray won't sing for him anymore.

Really, good to know it's not true.

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Things I wish the TBOSAS movie included from the book:

Making certain parts of Snow's inner monologues clear, such as the fact that he considered selling Tigris & really hated Sejanus.

The way the tributes started performing at the zoo to get bits of food & the fact that they were treated by veterinarians.

A better look into Snow's friendship with Clemensia.

The relationship development between Lucy Gray & Snow before the games started (it's much deeper in the book).

Arachne's funeral & Snow singing.

Lysistrata helping Jessup & him saving her in turn during the rebel explosion.

The aftermath of Clemensia being bitten by Gaul's snakes.

Dr Gaul's constant rhyming. It made her more unhinged and psychotic, whereas the movie mostly made her sinister.

“Well, you know what they say. The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings,”

Sejanus' mother wanting to go into the arena and get him herself.

Lamina & Reaper's brief alliance.

Teslee hacking the drones to kill Mizzen.

Snow bonding with the other peacekeepers.

The bond between the members of The Covey.

The closeness between Sejanus and his ma which made his execution even more heartbreaking in the book.

Snow's plan to marry someone he'd hate (Livia) so that he'd never feel love and be manipulated again.

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Ok, maybe we see him differently, but I have not noticed a shred of empathy in him since the movie shows us his grown up self. He might be somewhat okay underneath the facade, but every decision and every word demonstrate pretty clear how self-centered he is. I can agree on "this could happen irl" and "he's not a psychopath" and even "interesting", for sure. His story is a fascinating one to watch.

but complex? really? morally grey? ambiguous

I guess the terms of complexity should really be defined, because, to me, Katniss with her constant inner conflicts, unwanted responsibilities, uncontrolled compassion, calculated suicidal moves, erratic self-sacrifices, survival guilt, tenderness shifting to stiffness and back, endless self-decieving and self-condemnation, pride and dignity in spite of everything, total lack of self-awareness, impulses, fear, love, grief, anger and, by the end, even somewhat insanity, is pretty fucking complex.

Just got back from watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I enjoyed it. Maybe even more than the original series? Lol 💀 It left me wanting to know more of the hunger games universe. My favorite characters were President Snow and the Headgame maker.

I loved watching Snow’s character progression or fall? From gentle good natured hero to the cunning villian we see in the original series. I know a lot of people whined about not wanting to see a villian’s backstory which I think is ridiculous. Some people can’t handle anything other than black and white thinking. That’s what makes it fun to explore those kinds of philosophical questions. I enjoy characters that are more complex than simply being one of the “good guys”

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I re-read The Hunger Games right now, occasionally while listening to a news flash on TV, and, tbh, I'm rather shocked and concerned at how much Russia the book gives off. Not that I didn't know of it, though, but it still hits hard.

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Although grey morals exist and characters of this kind are interesting to observe, with Snow it is black and white. It's not like he's a good guy at the start of the movie, or in the middle, or anywhere at all. It's not like some decisions he makes are genuinely good.

He's power hungry, obsessive and cruel. Is it complex, really?

Feel myself kind of funny, cause usually when asked to name a complex protagonist that's totally stays on the "good" moral grounds, I usually remember Katniss.

Just got back from watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I enjoyed it. Maybe even more than the original series? Lol 💀 It left me wanting to know more of the hunger games universe. My favorite characters were President Snow and the Headgame maker.

I loved watching Snow’s character progression or fall? From gentle good natured hero to the cunning villian we see in the original series. I know a lot of people whined about not wanting to see a villian’s backstory which I think is ridiculous. Some people can’t handle anything other than black and white thinking. That’s what makes it fun to explore those kinds of philosophical questions. I enjoy characters that are more complex than simply being one of the “good guys”

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tbosbas is like: here's the darth vader origin story except it's not about how he's been groomed and manipulated into malice, deprived of possibilities of human connections and eventually tricked into committing violence he couldn't ever cleanse himself of.

it's about how he's always been a dick.

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Is it just me or the tbosbas movie is doing a poor job at framing it's own meanings? Especially in impicturing Snow?

Like, are we as the audience supposed to believe in his romance? In his care for what's left of his family? Barely. But are we supposed to watch him rise socially while his moral downfall is happening and be in our power to judge and convict? Even less so.

He's framed at the same time to be sympathetic and unsympathetic. It could've been poetic, I think, if it wasn't so confusing. Too much.

We see him both being calculating, cold-hearted, cruel, rational - and acting emotionally, affectionately even. Although these traits do not necessarily contradict each other in a person, they do in Coriolanus Snow.

Mostly because the camera - angles, colours, sounds - frames his affectionate "good person" moments as light, warm and true. It's close-up shots and eyes and warm palettes - like his moments with Lucy, especially already in 12, or when he does the handkerchief trick, or coming to Sejanus in the arena. The picture frames this as "he's a good person deep down" even when his words are terrifying.

On the contrary, his "bad person" moves which seem to be calculated and rationally approved are framed as full of hesitation and doubt and worries. He doesn't seem to do anything purely framed as "bad" for the audience. He's either lost or regretful or anguished.

At the same time the story clearly follows the path to depicting Snow's character arc as the birth of the villain. He clearly lives to be the antagonist of THG.

So how could it be we are constantly confused about his motifs and intentions? Confused about who he really is right when he states his personality as the future dictator and murderer? How could camera work and editing make something totally awful look excusable, even likeable?

That, probably, is a good hg question.

But, still, please tell me the book had it differently. The book is not visual. It shouldn't do this. Please please please?

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this rarely happens to me with my own art BUT look at him he is SO pretty!!!

He spent his whole life looking for his baby brother, trying to protect him from the Cult, from the pure evil, from people feeding him lies and manipulating him and turning him into a monster...

But his little brother is not a monster. He never will be.

Sam and Dean as Deimos! Alexios and Kassandra [from Assasin's Creed: Odyssey]

I don't want to fight you.

I've been playing the game for a while now (I like to take it slow) and couldn't get rid of the reminiscence between Taygetos siblings and the boys.